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lished in Murmansk in his book “Murmansk Direction” (“Murmanskoe Naprav- lenie”). Simonov would write: “I have loved for a long time this severe and beautiful land where live brave people accustomed to fighting difficulties. And I believe that readers of this book will feel permanency of this love” [Simonov, 1975, p. 5]. Stories written in war time and about war take a central place in his book, when Simonov travelled to the North as a war correspondent of the “Red Star” newspaper and went on reconnaissance, took part in marching of the Severomorsk troops. The main themes of his wartime poems were bravery of a Russian soldier during the war and a tragic death of the best and the strongest. (In his poems: “The Artillerist son”, “The Death of the Friend”, “The Voice of the Far-away Sons”) Simonov put special emphasis on severe climate conditions in which a soldier defends his motherland: “A May day in Zapolyarie. Rocky shoreline tundra buried in snow, the mountains are rising from all over like a crowd of white caps... The troops are advancing, the staff is moving forward... There are many places unreachable by car and where horses fall into snow”. Even the theme of love for a woman is inseparable from the northern landscape (A town with winds since the morning, and rain the evening... All this town is like a portrait of yours, “You have walked with me on icy stones [Ibid, p. 40, 45]. There was one more topic related to war that united Russian, Scottish and New Zealand writers (V. Pikul, A. McLean, D. Glover) - deed of seamen who participated in arctic military convoys. The writers had common understanding and depiction of war and a man at war and each of them was a convoy partici pant. Valentine Pikul (1928-1990) finished a school for sea cadets on Solovet sky islands and became a condition station commander at the battleship “Grozny” that convoyed English and American caravans with weapons bound to Murmansk. Pikul is the author of the famous novel “A Requiem for PQ-17 Car avan”. Alistair Stuart MacLean (1922-1987), an outstanding Scottish writer, ma rine painter, author of “H.M.S. Ulysses” novel was a torpedo man on convoy ships. Denis Glover (1912-1980), a famous New Zealand poet was an arctic convoy officer and was granted both English and Soviet awards. He included his tragic war experience in his collection of poems “The Wind and the Sand: Po ems 1934^44” and in his poem “Murmansk or Never”. Pikul and MacLean novels are united by true-to-life narration about a car avan that was left without any protection by the British Admiralty and sank be tween “Murmansk and Svalbard”. In his “Requiem” Pikul builds up an almost documentary narration, giving a minute-by-minute account of the tragedy time and seamen heroic deed. He includes captain’s records, ship documents, wit nesses and historians’ evidence, and his characters - real seamen and ships - are alive for him. Emotional narration becomes an antithesis to impartial docu ments: “Even prostrated and broken, through explosions of torpedoes and bombs, through gloating bragging of Gebbels, through infernal heat of fires, 89